1900 Ereignis Frühe Neuzeit Österreich
Vienna 1900
Freud, Klimt, Mahler, Wittgenstein: the capital becomes the laboratory of European modernity.
Der europäische Aufbau begann nicht 1950. Dieser Faden verbindet das antike Erbe, die jüdisch-christliche Matrix und die heutige Union.
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1900 Ereignis Frühe Neuzeit Österreich
Freud, Klimt, Mahler, Wittgenstein: the capital becomes the laboratory of European modernity.
1903 Krieg Frühe Neuzeit Nordmazedonien
The revolt against the Ottomans becomes the founding reference of the Macedonian state.
1905 Ereignis Frühe Neuzeit Norwegen Schweden
The union with Sweden is peacefully dissolved after a massive referendum.
1906 Ereignis Frühe Neuzeit Finnland
Finland is the first country in Europe to grant women both the vote and eligibility for office.
1910 Ereignis Frühe Neuzeit Portugal
The monarchy falls; the instability that follows will open the way to the Estado Novo.
1912 Ereignis Frühe Neuzeit Albanien
Proclaimed at Vlora on 28 November, at the end of the Balkan wars.
1914 Krieg Zeitgeschichte Serbien
The killing of the archduke sets off the chain reaction of the First World War.
1914 Ereignis Zeitgeschichte Belgien
The German invasion brings the United Kingdom into the war and freezes the Yser front.
1916 Krieg Zeitgeschichte Irland
The Dublin revolt, at first isolated, sets the independence process in motion.
1917 Ereignis Zeitgeschichte Finnland
On 6 December Finland separates from revolutionary Russia.
1918 Ereignis Frühe Neuzeit Rumänien
Union with Transylvania and Bessarabia doubles the territory and population.
1918 Ereignis Frühe Neuzeit Tschechien
Masaryk founds a parliamentary democracy that will remain unique in Central Europe.
1918 Ereignis Frühe Neuzeit Lettland
On 18 November the Republic of Latvia is proclaimed in Riga.
1918 Ereignis Frühe Neuzeit Estland
Proclaimed on 24 February, it is successfully defended in the war of liberation.
1918 Ereignis Frühe Neuzeit Slowenien
The fall of Austria-Hungary brings Slovenia into the kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes.
1918 Ereignis Frühe Neuzeit Montenegro
Montenegro is absorbed into the kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes.
1918 Ereignis Frühe Neuzeit Moldau Rumänien
The Sfatul Țării votes for union, annulled by the USSR in 1940.
1920 Vertrag Frühe Neuzeit Ungarn
Hungary loses two-thirds of its territory; three million Magyars become minorities.
1923 Institution Zeitgeschichte Türkei
Mustafa Kemal launches rapid Westernisation: Latin alphabet, Swiss civil code, secularism.
1923 Ereignis Zeitgeschichte Liechtenstein Schweiz
The Swiss franc becomes official currency; Bern represents the principality abroad.
1929 Ereignis Zeitgeschichte Vatikanstadt
Vatican City State is created; the Roman question is closed.
1932 Katastrophe Zeitgeschichte Ukraine
The famine engineered by Stalin kills millions; several states recognise it as genocide.
1939 Krieg Zeitgeschichte Polen
Invaded by Germany then the USSR, Poland loses nearly a fifth of its population.
1939 Krieg Zeitgeschichte Finnland
Facing Soviet invasion, Finnish resistance saves independence at the cost of Karelia.
1941 Krieg Zeitgeschichte Belarus
A quarter of the population perishes; hundreds of villages are razed.
1942 Ereignis Zeitgeschichte Malta
King George VI decorates the entire island for its endurance under bombardment.
1943 Ereignis Zeitgeschichte Bulgarien
Under pressure from the Orthodox Church and parliamentarians, deportation is cancelled.
1943 Ereignis Zeitgeschichte Dänemark
In a few nights, more than 7,000 Jews are evacuated to neutral Sweden.
1944 Ereignis Zeitgeschichte Island
On 17 June, at Þingvellir, Iceland breaks the link with the Danish crown.
1944 Ereignis Zeitgeschichte San Marino
The neutral republic houses more than 100,000 people, ten times its population.
1944 Ereignis Zeitgeschichte Niederlande
Signed in London by the governments in exile, it prefigures the common market.
1944 Krieg Zeitgeschichte Slowakei
One of the largest armed revolts against the Axis in occupied Europe.
1949 Text Zeitgeschichte Deutschland
“Human dignity shall be inviolable”: Article 1 places the person — a Christian and humanist legacy — at the summit of the legal order.
1949 Institution Europäischer Aufbau
Ten states found in London the first European political organisation, matrix of the Convention on Human Rights.
1950 Text Europäischer Aufbau
On 9 May France proposes placing coal and steel under a common authority. Community Europe is born of a material pooling.
1951 Vertrag Europäischer Aufbau
Six states create the European Coal and Steel Community, the continent’s first supranational institution.
1952 Krieg Europäischer Aufbau Luxemburg
Europe’s first supranational institution settles in Luxembourg.
1955 Vertrag Zeitgeschichte Österreich
The four powers withdraw; Austria proclaims perpetual neutrality.
1956 Krieg Zeitgeschichte Ungarn
The revolt is crushed by the Red Army; 200,000 Hungarians go into exile.
1957 Ereignis Europäischer Aufbau
The EEC and Euratom are established; the common market and the four freedoms are laid down.
1957 Text Europäischer Aufbau Belgien
Belgian Paul-Henri Spaak drafts the preparatory text of the Treaties of Rome.
1960 Ereignis Zeitgeschichte Zypern
The Republic of Cyprus is born of a compromise between Greece, Turkey and the United Kingdom.
1962 Religion Zeitgeschichte Vatikanstadt
The Church reforms its liturgy and redefines its relations with the modern world and Judaism.
1963 Vertrag Europäischer Aufbau Frankreich
De Gaulle and Adenauer seal Franco-German reconciliation, the institutional engine of integration.
1963 Vertrag Europäischer Aufbau Türkei
Association with the EEC explicitly envisages an accession perspective.
1963 Text Europäischer Aufbau
The Court of Justice asserts direct effect: Community law creates rights for citizens themselves.
1964 Ereignis Zeitgeschichte Malta
Malta leaves the British Empire and becomes a republic ten years later.
1967 Ereignis Zeitgeschichte Albanien
Albania proclaims itself the world’s first atheist state; churches and mosques are closed.
1968 Ereignis Zeitgeschichte Tschechien
“Socialism with a human face” is crushed by Warsaw Pact tanks in August.
1968 Ereignis Europäischer Aufbau
Internal tariffs disappear eighteen months ahead of schedule.
1969 Entdeckung Zeitgeschichte Norwegen
North Sea oil transforms the economy and founds the Norwegian sovereign wealth fund.
1973 Ereignis Europäischer Aufbau Dänemark
The first Nordic member, Denmark enters alongside the United Kingdom and Ireland.
1973 Ereignis Europäischer Aufbau Irland
Ireland joins with the United Kingdom and begins its economic transformation.
1973 Ereignis Europäischer Aufbau Vereinigtes Königreich
After two French vetoes, the United Kingdom enters the EEC with Denmark and Ireland.
1973 Ereignis Europäischer Aufbau
Denmark, Ireland and the United Kingdom join the Communities, which grow from six to nine.
1974 Ereignis Zeitgeschichte Portugal
On 25 April an almost bloodless military coup restores democracy.
1974 Ereignis Zeitgeschichte Zypern
The coup and Turkish intervention cut Cyprus in two; the Green Line crosses Nicosia.
1974 Ereignis Zeitgeschichte Kosovo
The Yugoslav constitution grants Kosovo near-republican attributes.
1975 Vertrag Europäischer Aufbau Finnland
Thirty-five states sign a text placing human rights at the heart of détente.
1978 Text Zeitgeschichte Spanien
Three years after Franco, Spain adopts a parliamentary monarchy and a state of autonomies.
1979 Ereignis Europäischer Aufbau
For the first time citizens directly elect their MEPs; Simone Veil chairs the assembly.
1980 Ereignis Zeitgeschichte Polen
At the Gdańsk shipyards the Soviet bloc’s first free trade union is born. Communism loses its workers’ legitimacy.
1980 Ereignis Zeitgeschichte Island
Iceland elects the world’s first woman head of state by direct universal suffrage.
1981 Ereignis Europäischer Aufbau Griechenland
As the tenth member, Greece anchors its restored democracy in Community Europe.